The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-05-27

he has sold his Interest in the
Courunt to Prof. J. &. Hamm, of Hum
boldt, and that he expects to remove
to Colorado soon and resume the prac-
tice of law. Mr.. Gordon has lived in
Allen county for seventeen years and
has many friends who will regret to
see him leave. He took hold of the
Courdnt about q year ago without ex-
perience in the business and with Bit
ter and relentless fight on his hands
from the start. But he got experience,
plenty of it, in very short time, and
he did not permit the other fellows to
do quite all the fighting. He has not
made much money, but he has had
deadoodles of fun. He held onto the
ship year just to show that he could
hold on as long as he wanted to, and
he leaves it now because he gets his
price. The REGISTER has nothing
but good wishes for him. Prof.
Hamm has owned q half interest in
the COurdnt for some months and for
the past three or four weeks has done
most of the editorial writing for it, 80
that the change in ownership will
probably make little change in the man.
agement of the paper. Mr.. Hamm
REGISTER extends him the right hand
of fellowship as citizen and as "es-
teemed contemporary"
At special meeting of the A. O. U.
w. Lodge last Monday evening, the
matter Of building a hall, already al
luded to in these columns, was thor
oughly discussed and it was unani-
cd hn =,
should be undertaken, provided that
satisfactory contracts could be made.
A committee was appointed to make
the preliminary arrangements, and re-
port at the regular meeting tonight.
We chronicle this action of the Lodge
with unqualified satisfaction. OF
course no contracts have yet been let
and some unforeseen. obstacle ruay yet
arise to defeat the project. But we
have every confidence that the hall
will be built. The membership of the
Lodge comprises a large number of
our most active and enterprising BUSH
ness men and when they undertake
anything it is bound to be accomplish
ed. And when this hall is built it will
be the finest hall owned by any secret
order in southeastern Kansas. Wei
hope all our citizens will give the Lodge
every encouragement in their power,
so that the work may be begun at the
earliest possible moment.
The people in the Wise neighbor-
hood are exercised over the antics of
some sort of an animal which has been
having the run of that locality the past
week or ten days. 1t visited Mr.. Phil |
lips place one night last week, licked |
two or three of his big dogs all at once
and when it left carried off a good sig
ed pup in its mouth. The pup was
found day or two after quarter of a
mile from the house with it's head
crushed and as dead as mackerel.
The animal also carried pup from J.
B. Duncan's place and killed it, and
visited B. A. Longstreath's, r. w.
Burton's and other places, fighting
the dogs and even threatening t0l at |
tack persons. Some think it is a
mad dog, and have killed
their dogs whichwere bittenby it;while
others think it cougar or Rocky
lion, and are talking of get |
ting up party and hunting it down.
Colony Free Press.
Let us HE us away to the woodland,
to the woodland wild and green,
where the bull frog and the mosquito |
are singing their songs serene. Let US |
carry our baskets with us, for what is
life without lunch? and we'll sit us
down on the green sward northumberland |
MUNICH and MUNICH. To be sure the
,ward will be muddy and we'll ruin our |
pants, and our butter will all be |
melted and our pie will be full of ants; |
and our clothes will be torn to tatters |
and our faces and hands will be red,
from the touch OF the poison ivy
IN which We have laid our head
and We'll come home tired and surly, |
with q wish that we'd never been born, !
well becross with our wives and our |
and be altogether foriorn;
out the springtime has come, gentle
Annie, you remember the rest of the
song ),itsthe fashion to HE to the wood
and and SO we must all HE along.
1t is rule in all well regulated
offices that no communica-
ion shall be published unless the name
IF the author is known to the editor.
Besides this general rule, 1t is special
.ule in the REGISTER office that all
to the Farmers Col
INN shall be signed by the proper
name of the author. Cannot "a Sub
answer to Clarence NOrtOn's questions
comply with these rules? We wish,
90, that he or she would write little
more plainly and only on one side of
The paper.
A subscrir ton paper ought to be circulated
or the purpose of seeing who and how many
would help defray the expenses OF holding a
no Falls Post.
Never mind that subscription paper.
We've already raised the money and
ire not asking any help from our
leighbors except their presence. Come
light along without money and with
tut price. It's our treat.
Rev. w. H. Hyatt was regularly in
tailed as pastor of the Presbyterian
church last Sunday evening, the cere-
Monies being conducted by Revs.
Drake, of Humboldt, Millikan, of Car
yle, and Irwin. of Geneva, the COM
nittee appointed for this purpose by
'resbytery. The services were we'll
ttended and were interesting and inn
'ressive. !;
We have been wondering where we J
would turn for anus ement now that
/. ID. Smith has left Humboldt. But
ur mind is relieved since reading the {
in the COurdnt signed
j. Bond" Smith Is gone but he has
eft his mantle behind him and it fits
ar. Bond as though it were made for
i'm.
We return thanks to the graduating r